President William Ruto has dismissed the Auditor General’s report, which claimed that the government spent Ksh104 billion on the Social Health Authority (SHA) system despite not owning it.
Speaking during the burial ceremony of Malava MP Malulu Injendi, Ruto refuted the allegations, calling them falsehoods propagated by the media and social media users.
”This noise that you are hearing on social media and the newspaper is from people who were stealing from us during the times of NHIF. These are brokers. I even saw them recently claiming that the government would use Ksh100 billion on the system. Have they classified us as mad people?” Ruto satated.
He assured that no public funds had been spent on the system and emphasized that the government would not pay for any system in the future.
”There is not a single cent from the government that will be used to pay for any system. Most of the money owned by the NHIF was being misappropriated by the brokers in the old NHIF system,” he said.
Ruto attributed the backlash against the SHA system to brokers who benefitted from the defunct National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and maintained that the government would proceed with its decision to have a consortium of technology companies handle all claims made to SHA.
